RE: Muriel
The Laughing Man (the_laughing_man@hotmail.com)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:14:12 +0000 (GMT)
Again I feel happy to be a member of this group, and again it’s Cecilia. Not
breaking my heart, S & G-F style, but definitely making it pound a bit
stronger. Last time she gave me the entire Rilke poem I’m still wrestling
with, totally unwilling to give in to your interpretation of it but totally
unable to feint around it. (I went a bit astray commenting it and gave up,
but I can feel inspiration coming: at a consultant meeting today a colleague
of mine used the expression ‘so we are ourselves enough’ and I can feel it
all coming back to me…)
This time it is Muriel. Aaah, ol’ Muriel. Mixing memory and desire. Cecilia
makes a brilliant interpretation of the Muriel of the Glass saga. The
unreliable narrator is one of my favorite concepts. Well executed. I have
you up there with the sister of The Beach Man. Tell you later what that
means.
But a piece of me is also with Jim here. A short story as a short story. A
imagist beauty in that.
/TLM
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